microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score

62 vs 81

Hardware Fit

99 vs 95

Quality Score

46 vs 75

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Cores1020

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec40.3108.3

First chunk289 ms169 ms

TTFT289 ms169 ms

Load timeN/A1.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %6%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

25/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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